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Friday the 13th

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Lucky Friday 13th Lotto’s

The 13th of July will be falling on a Friday. All around the Western world people regard Friday the 13th as a particularly unlucky day! we would like you all to reconsider this position.

As one of the most famous day and date combinations in the world what better day could you pick to play your favourite lottery? We have already taken a look at lucky number 11 – so now let’s investigate the possibility of a lucky 13!

Playing The Lotto On A Friday 13th

Since the late 19th Century the world’s imagination has been captured by the idea of this particularly unlucky day. No one is 100% certain about how exactly this day came to be regarded as unlucky with some people citing possible religious origins dating back thousands of years.

Hollywood jumped on the bandwagon with a ‘slasher’ horror film series called ‘Friday the 13th’. These films featured the now famous ‘Jason’ character chasing unsuspecting teenagers through the woods with an axe and a hockey mask. Now PlayHugeLottos.com would like to assure all of its players that there is no need to lock your doors, avoid talking to strangers or otherwise hide from the world on this day. Here at PlayHugeLottos.com the only thing chasing you on Friday the 13th are massive Jackpots!

Statistics have shown that there is no verifiable measure of increases in bad things happening on a Friday the 13th. So if Friday the 13th being unlucky is simply superstition why not spend the day picking your lucky numbers instead? What better irony could there be than matching the winning lotto numbers on a Friday the 13th?

Friday 13th is big day for Loto

UNLUCKY Friday the 13th is not enough to put off the eight million people who are expected to take part in today's Super Loto and Euro Millions draws.

Despite its reputation as a cursed day, it is considered to be one of the luckiest days of the year for gamblers. Gaming businesses usually see double the amount of customers on Friday 13th, as supersitious French come out in force to try their luck.

This phenomenon has been rooted in French society since 1933, when the first draw of the French National Lottery took place on Friday 13.

Players who say they fear the day try their luck as a way to ward off evil. They will each bring their own rituals to influence their fate, including scratching the card in the same direction, playing in the same newsagent or always using the same lottery numbers.

The Super Loto will today have a raised jackpot of €13 million and player numbers will double from four million to eight million.

Friday the 13^th

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th

Friday the 13th is a date considered to be bad luck in western superstition.

According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century.[1][2][3] The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th.

He [Rossini] was surrounded to the last by admiring friends; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that one Friday 13th of November he died.[4]

Several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.

One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.

In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.

Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales,[5] and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys, begin new projects or deploy releases in production. Black Friday has been associated with stock market crashes and other disasters since the 1800s.[3][6]

One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,[7] in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.[1]

Records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. On Friday, 13 October 1307, hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested in France, an action apparently motivated financially and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day of Clement V's coronation, the king falsely charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the Pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently.[8] However, experts agree that this is a relatively recent correlation, and most likely a modern-day invention.